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Nice one. I've got a translucent blue one, I think from him that works well with quite a few titles. Just keen to get something original, and I remember using the Nidd slomo with a BBC Master in the original day centre I used to work in 20 years ago. Great bit of kit. Wish they did something similar for modern day computing.

OneSwitch wrote:I've got a translucent blue one, I think from him that works well with quite a few titles.

If it is one of mine that you have (and I did build and supply a few to special request over the years), it should work just as well as a Slo-Mo because I'm pretty sure they both employ the same principal of operation. I remember MU phoning me after I made the submission to ask if I'd ever seen a Slo-Mo which I hadn't and I told them so at which point they seemed happy to carry the article. I always assumed they were checking I hadn't copied the commercial device which I certainly didn't and I'm pretty sure I only heard about the Slo-Mo after MU told me of its existence!

OneSwitch wrote:The one I have is translucent blue with a blue LED on it, and controls laser-etched/burnt into the surface. It's a great thing, so I do appreciate it. Just after one of the originals.

Um, I remember buying one of the the first 5mm blue LED types that Maplin put in their catalog years ago. The blue ones then were not very bright and cost far more than red, yellow, orange or green ones. So what you have may have been made a bit later. Or maybe the years have been speeding by while I was asleep

Fenrer wrote:Jason Smith, a good friend of mine, was able to emulate the Echo-II speech synthesizer using an enhanced AppleIIE ROM. The appleII got it's own screen reader, surprisingly. But back to the beeb... This wikipedia article mentions a screen reader for the BBC:
"In the 1980s, the Research Centre for the Education of the Visually Handicapped (RCEVH) at the University of Birmingham developed Screen Reader for the BBC Micro and NEC Portable."

9. Any eye-gaze / eye-switch hardware or software. Any switch accessible scanning alternative keyboard software or hardware.
10. Any Blue-File info and titles.
11. Screen Reader by the Research Centre for the Education of the Visually Handicapped (RCEVH) at the University of Birmingham. [NEW]

Hey, I know it wasn't contemporaneous with the BBC Micro, but I work for an assistive tech charity — the Neil Squire Society's Makers Making Change initiative. We were one of the early developers of sip and puff technology, and maybe the Jouse that was developed by NSS in 1995 was available for the later Acorn machines?

It wouldn't be very hard to modify our open-source Lipsync sip and puff device to work with any computer.